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Here you will find contemporary artists worldwide who are over the age of 50 years and have taken over the past year the highest percentage gain in attention in the art scene. A score of 50 points in the year before is one condition for the selection, as well as an overall score of at least 500 in the years since 2004.
| ranking | artist's name | country | lives in | birth date | born in | medium | gain 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antoni Muntadas | ES | Barcelone | 1942 | installation | 1173.2 % | |
| 2 | KRIWET | DE | Düsseldorf | 1942 | Düsseldorf | mixed media | 482.4 % |
| 3 | Boris Mikhailov | UA | Berlin | 1938 | Kharkov | photography | 434.1 % |
| 4 | Robert Crumb | US | Sauve / Frankreich | 1943 | Philadelphia | drawing | 425.5 % |
| 5 | Robert Irwin | US | San Diego | 1928 | mixed media | 409.4 % | |
| 6 | Santu Mofokeng | ZA | Johannesburg | 1956 | Johannesburg | photography | 394.1 % |
| 7 | Robert Therrien | US | Los Angeles | 1947 | sculpture / plastik | 387.5 % | |
| 8 | William Pope L | US | Newark | 1955 | Newark | multimedia | 375 % |
| 9 | Joel Sternfeld | US | New York | 1944 | New York | photography | 372.2 % |
| 10 | Leiko Ikemura | JP | Berlin | 1951 | Tsu Mie | mixed media | 367.2 % |
| 11 | Lee Ufan | KR | Paris | 1936 | Kyonsangnamdo | painting | 362.9 % |
| 12 | Beatriz Milhazes | BR | Rio de Janeiro | 1960 | Rio de Janeiro | painting | 360.4 % |
| 13 | Heinz Mack | DE | Düsseldorf | 1931 | Lollar | mixed media | 356.4 % |
| 14 | Vija Celmins | LV | New York | 1938 | Riga | drawing | 351.2 % |
| 15 | Hans-Christian Schink | DE | Berlin | 1961 | Erfurt | photography | 347.4 % |
| 16 | Ai Weiwei | CN | Beijing | 1957 | Peking | installation | 341.3 % |
| 17 | Ellsworth Kelly | US | New York | 1923 | Newburgh | painting | 325.2 % |
| 18 | Fernanda Gomes | BR | Rio de Janeiro | 1960 | Rio de Janeiro | painting | 318.6 % |
| 19 | Marnie Weber | US | Los Angeles | 1959 | Bridgeport | video / film | 297.3 % |
| 20 | Christian Philipp Müller | CH | New York, NY | 1957 | sculpture / plastik | 296.7 % | |
| 21 | Tatsuo Miyajima | JP | Ibaraki/Japan | 1957 | Tokyo | installation | 279.5 % |
| 22 | Marijke van Warmerdam | NL | Amsterdam | 1959 | Amstel | installation | 278.6 % |
| 23 | Sean Scully | IE | Munich | 1945 | Dublin | painting | 257.8 % |
| 24 | Micha Ullman | IL | Stuttgart | 1939 | installation | 252.8 % | |
| 25 | Gonzalo Puch | ES | sevilla | 1950 | photography | 248.4 % | |
| 26 | Gülsün Karamustafa | TR | Istanbul | 1946 | video / film | 243.7 % | |
| 27 | John Stezaker | GB | London | 1949 | mixed media | 242.1 % | |
| 28 | Vera Lutter | DE | New York | 1960 | Kaiserslautern | photography | 240.8 % |
| 29 | Adam Fuss | GB | New York | 1961 | photography | 238.8 % | |
| 30 | Jean-Luc Moulène | FR | Paris | 1955 | sculpture / plastik | 234.8 % | |
